I just went to begin looking over the 2018 posts, thinking about my own nominations. I was immediately hit with a bit of paralysis of “aaah but I don’t even know what standards to employ here – I feel like I want to take a long time to think about all the posts I might want to nominate and how they compare and how they fit into the big picture” (plus, a bit of Pat Modesto whispering in my ear saying “who are youuuu to decide what posts are good!?”)
And, well, if I’m experiencing that it seemed like others might be as well.
So, wanted to explicitly note: I think this process will be more fruitful (as well as more fun) if it’s more like an evolving conversation than a bunch of people silently thinking independently. A lot of the value is in getting old posts back into the public spotlight in a concentrated way.
So, I’d err on the side of going ahead and nominating things that seem good – you can retract the nomination later if you feel like it was a mistake. You can also start with a relatively brief nomination-endorsement-message that gives the rough gist of why a post was valuable, and later follow it up with a more extensive message when you have time.
Perhaps worth noting (ironically)
I just went to begin looking over the 2018 posts, thinking about my own nominations. I was immediately hit with a bit of paralysis of “aaah but I don’t even know what standards to employ here – I feel like I want to take a long time to think about all the posts I might want to nominate and how they compare and how they fit into the big picture” (plus, a bit of Pat Modesto whispering in my ear saying “who are youuuu to decide what posts are good!?”)
And, well, if I’m experiencing that it seemed like others might be as well.
So, wanted to explicitly note: I think this process will be more fruitful (as well as more fun) if it’s more like an evolving conversation than a bunch of people silently thinking independently. A lot of the value is in getting old posts back into the public spotlight in a concentrated way.
So, I’d err on the side of going ahead and nominating things that seem good – you can retract the nomination later if you feel like it was a mistake. You can also start with a relatively brief nomination-endorsement-message that gives the rough gist of why a post was valuable, and later follow it up with a more extensive message when you have time.